Favourite Electrofire, driven by Brian Sears for trainer Casie Coleman, was the champion of the chalk players Saturday night, winning Yonkers Raceway's $35,000 Open Handicap Pace.
Starting inside his six rivals, Electrofire retook from the six wins-in-a-row Proven Lover (Jason Bartlett), after a foggy, :28-second opening quarter-mile. The reformed claimer then rolled through a :55.4 intermission and 1:23.4 three-quarters, losing his pocket pursuer and any semblance of an outer flow.
Electrofire had a two and a half length lead turning for home and was never threatened. He was two lengths to the good at the wire, which he found in 1:52.3. Second went to Saint William A (Larry Stalbaum), photoing over Here We Go Again (George Brennan). Fitzs Z Tam (Matt Kakaley, seven winners in the first two racing nights) and newly-minted millionaire River Shark (Mark MacDonald) rounded out the payees.
For reformed claimer Electrofire, a six-year-old son of Electric Stena co-owned by Ontario's West Wins Stable and New Jersey's Dave Miller, he returned $4.20 for his first win in a couple of seasonal starts. The exacta paid $46.20, with the triple returning $172.
The Raceway resumes its normal five-night-per-week live schedule next week, with first post every Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 7:10 p.m. Evening simulcasting accompanies all live programs, with afternoon simulcasting available around the NYRA schedule.
(With files from Yonkers Raceway)
Electrofire's sire Electric
Electrofire's sire Electric Stena is now standing in Pictou, Nova Scotia, at Pictonian Farms.